Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan Sentenced To Death For 2009 Massacre

Nidal Hasan, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 31 in a November 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, is pictured in an undated Bell County Sheriff's Office photograph. REUTERS-Bell County Sheriff's Office-Handout

Fort Hood Shooter Sentenced To Death For 2009 Killings -- Reuters

(Reuters) - A military jury on Wednesday sentenced a U.S. Army psychiatrist to death for the 2009 mass murder of 13 people, mostly unarmed soldiers, at Fort Hood, Texas, which the convicted gunman said he committed in retaliation for U.S. wars in the Muslim world.

Major Nidal Hasan, who shouted "Allahu akbar" during the attack and later said he wanted to be a martyr, faces death by lethal injection for a rampage that also wounded 31 people at the sprawling central Texas military base, where he opened fire just weeks before he was to be deployed to Afghanistan.

Such sentences are rare in the military, which last executed a member of the armed services 52 years ago. Hasan, 42, becomes the sixth man on death row at the U.S. military's prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

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